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Global Garde attempts to kill piracy dead

by Shawn Ingram on Dec 29, 2008 at 07:11 PM

Raise your hand if you remember the Spore SecuROM fiasco.  The community backlash, and the resulting huge amount of pirated copies of the game that became available.  You’d think that somebody would try to create a form of copy protection that both copyright holders and consumers can be okay with. … Continue Reading »

That FBI Warning on movies? RealDVD apparently thinks “not so much”.

by Jodie Andrefski on Sep 8, 2008 at 11:46 PM

“The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.”  So says the warning on all movies released since early… Continue Reading »

Judge orders YouTube to hand user histories over to Viacom

by Jodie Andrefski on Jul 4, 2008 at 08:51 AM

Your right to privacy is no longer as private as you once thought or hoped. By court order, Google is being forced to hand over all the records of every video watched by YouTube users. This information will include users’ names as well as IP addresses, and the request has… Continue Reading »

ITC agrees to investigate patent infringement complaint against Sharp

by Sue Walsh on Jan 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM

The International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate a complaint of patent infringement made against Sharp Corp. Samsung claims that Sharp has infringed on 4 different patents for LCDs. Samsung is attempting to block imports of products using Sharp LCDs. These products include HDTV’s and the Motorola RAZR2. The companies… Continue Reading »

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